The Inner Call of Metaphysical Idealism

Bernardo Kastrup, PhD, is a computer scientist, who has also completed a second doctoral degree in philosophy. He is author of Rationalist Spirituality, Why Materialism is Baloney, Dreamed Up Reality, Meaning in Absurdity, Brief Peeks Beyond, More Than Allegory, The Idea of the World, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, and Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe, and most recently Science Ideated: The Fall of Matter and the Countours of the Next Mainstream Scientific Worldview. He has published several papers on Scientific American’s website arguing for metaphysical idealism. His website is https://www.bernardokastrup.com/.

This is an unusual video because it runs for over three hours, and also because it is a very personal discussion in which both Bernardo and Jeffrey reveal aspects of their own inner life that are rarely discussed publicly. Bernardo maintains that his intensive focus on arguing for analytical idealism, both philosophically and scientifically, is the result of often uncomfortable prodding from his “daimon” – part of his conscious awareness that he experiences as separate from himself. The lengthy conversation covers many topics in science, philosophy, and culture.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is the Grand Prize winner of the Bigelow Institute essay competition on the postmortem survival of human consciousness.

(Recorded on February 10, 2021)

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LINKS TO OTHER BOOKS SHOWN IN THIS INTERVIEW:

Bernardo Kastrup, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics – https://amzn.to/36tQuxa

Bernardo Kastrup, The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality – https://amzn.to/2zsuoib

Bernardo Kastrup, Dreamed Up Reality: Diving Into the Mind to Uncover the Astonishing Hidden Tale of Nature – https://amzn.to/3bYAyEe

Bernardo Kastrup, Why Materialism is Baloney – https://amzn.to/2TCSUEp

Bernardo Kastrup, Brief Peeks Beyond: Critical Essays on Metaphysics, Neuroscience, Free Will, Skepticism, and Culture – https://amzn.to/2ZzcjK0

Bernardo Kastrup, Meaning in Absurdity: What Bizarre Phenomena Can Tell Us About the Nature of Reality – https://amzn.to/2XruFdh

Bernardo Kastrup, Rationalist Spirituality – https://amzn.to/2Xp7IYm

Bernardo Kastrup, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth, and Belief – https://amzn.to/3efgSgD

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